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“Purple Martins” by Carl Sandburg

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Five fat geese Eat grass on a sod bank And never count your slinging ciphers, your sliding figure eights. Dip and get away From loops into slip-knots, Write your own ciphers and figure eights. It is your wooded island here in Lincoln park. Everybody knows this belongs to you.

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No Snow on Long Island

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We switched up our agenda and decided to join Seth and Gene and a trio of Staten Islanders on a trip around Long Island looking for lingering rarities and anything else that we might manage to come across on a full day’s birding.

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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Here’s a tidbit from the NRA’s Hunters’ Rights website: “Sandhill cranes are hunted much like geese, with decoys set in fields and hunters stationed in blinds. Canada Geese and Crows can figure it out, so can Cranes. Isn’t that neat? All the hunting will take place for the most part on private land.

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